Monday, October 15, 2007

Adverts for the Police State

Kurt NimmoTruthNewsOctober 14, 2007

Mountain Dew, the “diet” (that is, aspartame infused) soft drink brand produced by PepsiCo, is running a television advert showing a puppeteer raided by a SWAT team because “window puppet shows are illegal in New York.” As MSNBC’s Ads of the Weird notes, the supposedly humorous ad is “likely to get the attention of diet Mountain Dew’s core intended audience, men ages 18 to 39,” but there is another message here for this “core intended audience”—ninja-black clad SWAT teams, dispatched on the flimsiest of pretense, are not abnormal, are in fact quite normal. Get used to it. You live in a police state now.

Favorite Quotes

"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day. But a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (administrations), too plainly proves a deliberate systematic plan of reducing us to slavery."-Thomas Jefferson

"A time comes when silence is betrayal." -Martin Luther King"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."-Mark Twain"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." -Albert Einstein"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." -Thomas Jefferson"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security." -Benjamin Franklin

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. " -James Madison